First Draft

By JONATHAN MARTIN

Sending an operative to Iowa like Michael Halle, who has ties with the Clinton loyalists Terry McAuliffe and Robby Mook, indicates a serious push in the caucuses there for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s expected presidential campaign.

First Draft

By FIRST DRAFT

I’ve come to the conclusion that it would be helpful to move legislation this week that makes it clear that this law doesn’t give businesses the right to deny services to anyone.” – Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, asking that a fix to the law be sent to him by the end of the week and saying “I abhor discrimination.”

By SAM ROBERTS

U.S. Air Force

Robert L. Hite, then a lieutenant, was led from a plane by his Japanese captors after he and seven other airmen were flown from China to Tokyo. He was held for 40 months before being liberated in 1945.

Lt. Col. Hite was the last survivor among eight crewmen who were captured by the Japanese when American bombers brought World War II home to Japan in 1942.

Exposures

By AN RONG XU

A year after it was fully in place, the Affordable Care Act has largely succeeded in delivering on President Obama’s main promises, even as it fell short in some ways and gave birth to a new and powerful conservative movement.

A synopsis of the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is accused of killing three people and injuring more than 260 in the bombing at the Boston Marathon in 2013. Mr. Tsarnaev is facing 30 federal charges, 17 of which carry the death penalty. He has pleaded not guilty.